Power Rangers film informatics Part 08: Rita Repulsa and Goldar

RITA REPULSA
An alien invader, and enemy of the Power Rangers, Rita Repulsa is a 65-million-year-old former Green Ranger who has gone rogue. She formed the monster Goldar while attempting to steal the Zeo Crystal, an artifact that channels the Morphing Grid dimension and also gives the Power Rangers their powers, for Lord Zedd.


GOLDAR
Goldar is a monster created by Rita, appearing as a giant gargoyle-like monster made purely out of gold.


Putty Patrollers
The Putty Patrol is the standard foot soldiers deployed by Rita Repulsa, redesigned as stone golems.

Power Rangers film informatics Part 07: Kimberly the Pink Ranger

Kimberly Hart used to be Queen Bee of Angel Grove High, but has been cast out of the popular clique and is now struggling to find her identity. She has a new rebel-without-a-cause, edgy attitude, but this front is hiding a secret that makes her feel deeply vulnerable.

 
Kimberly uses the Pterodactyl Power Coin to morph into the Pink Ranger, and her Pterodactyl Battle Zord (the only Zord capable of flight) becomes the head, back and wings of the Megazord. The head also becomes the Power Sword,

Power Rangers film informatics Part 06: Trini the Yellow Ranger

Trini is mysterious but extremely bright. Her parents constantly move for work, making her the perpetual new girl to any school. A loner who owns it, Trini is self-sufficient and contemplative, but always observant. All she wants is to find her gang of friends, though she'll never admit it - least of all to herself.

 
Trini uses the Sabretooth Tiger Power Coin to morph into the Yellow Ranger, and her Sabretooth Tiger becomes the mid torso and upper legs of the Megazord. The twin cannon pack on the Zord's back gets attached to the left wrist of the Megazord.

Power Rangers film informatics Part 05: Billy the Blue Ranger

Billy has always been challenged in his abilities to communicate and interact socially. Whip-smart and sweet, he is the most pure-hearted of the group. Billy has never had any friends, so finding teenagers that he's comfortable with is a big deal, and soon he begins connecting with people in a way he's never been able to do before.

 
Billy uses the Triceratops Power Coin to morph into the Blue Ranger, and his six-legged Triceratops Battle Zord becomes the left leg of the Megazord.

Power Rangers film informatics Part 04: Zack the Black Ranger

Zack is filled with bravo and swagger. He is tough and cool on the exterior but has many layers beyond his fearless appearance. Zack advertises everything about himself, except the truth, which makes him feel deeply inferior to all his peers.


Zack uses the Mastodon Power Coin to morph into the Black Ranger, and his eight-legged Mastodon Battle Zord becomes the right leg of the Megazord.

Power Rangers film informatics Part 03: Jason the Red Ranger

Jason was a football legend in his small town of Angel Grove until he made one fateful mistake. At first, he is in need of redemption and is struggling to find himself. But soon, he is given a chance to lead a new team made up of an unlikely group of teenage superheroes and must find it in himself to rise up to the challenge.

 
Jason uses the Tyrannosaurus Power Coin to morph into the Red Ranger. As a ranger, his most defining character trait is his desire to be a good leader. When anything goes wrong, Jason is the first of the team to attempt to correct it. Whenever anyone is in danger, Jason is always the first to rally the other rangers to save them. His Tyrannosaurus Battle Zord becomes upper torso and arms of Megazord. The tail becomes an arm-mounted cannon, as well as two smaller cannons on the wings once combined with the Pterodactyl.

Power Rangers film informatics Part 02: Zordon and Alpha

ZORDON
The mentor of the Power Rangers and original ancient Red Ranger. Zordon lived millions of years ago before becoming a part of the Morphing Grid as he is in modern-day.


ALPHA 5
The robot assistant of Zordon, whose metallic body can transform for various purposes.

Power Rangers film informatics Part 01: Introduction

 
Power Rangers (billed as Saban's Power Rangers) is an upcoming American superhero film directed by Dean Israelite and written by John Gatins, Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney and Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless. The film is based on the franchise of the same name, serving as a reboot and re-imagining of the franchise. The film features most of the main characters of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers portrayed by a new cast. Franchise creator Haim Saban returned to produce the film under his private equity investment firm. The film will be released in the United States on March 24, 2017.

Plot
Saban’s Power Rangers follows five ordinary teens who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove - and the world - is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat. Chosen by destiny, our heroes quickly discover they are the only ones who can save the planet. But to do so, they will have to overcome their real-life issues and before it’s too late, band together as the Power Rangers.

Cast
Dacre Montgomery as Jason Scott/Red Ranger
Naomi Scott as Kimberly Hart/Pink Ranger
Ludi Lin as Zack Taylor
RJ Cyler as Billy Cranston
Becky Gomez as Trini Kwan
Bill Hader as Alpha 5
Bryan Cranston as Zordon 
Elizabeth Banks as Rita Repulsa

Guardians Russian film informatics Part 6: Xenia aka Waterwoman

 
Xenia is the sole female member of the Guardians, and presumably the fiancee of Ursus. She is flexible and agile, to a superhuman degree, making her a skilled acrobat, gymnast, and even martial artist. She has the ability to move on water as if it were solid ground, as well as to seamlessly floating through it as it if were air. This gives her higher mobility in water compared to the fastest, or most maneuverable sea creature. She cannot feel temperature differences and can survive in an airless vacuum, which allows her to survive underwater without any negative effects. 
She can also transform her body into a clear, transparent water like liquid, use it defensively or offensively. This ability allows her to become gelatinous and viscous, allowing her to flow like liquid, while being able to physical touch and interact at the same time. In this form, her body becomes silhouetted and nearly featureless, with her hair disappearing and the only features on her being her eyes, ears and nose. In addition, her transparency can be enough for her to turn invisible, while she also wears a special costume designed to also become invisible with her. The costume also enables her to convert anything she touches invisible.

Guardians Russian film informatics Part 5: Ursus aka Wildman

 
Ursus (Lain for bear) is a type of berserker or werebear, and has the ability to transform himself into a large bear, though he can control how much of his body is transformed and can transform partially if he wills it. This transformation ability can allow him to seamlessly alter his size, bulk and musculature and transform himself into a burly humanoid, as well as use his transformations to physically augment himself. He has multiple phases of transformation due to his ability to partially transform. His phases can make him physically a hybrid between bear and human, such as giving him the head, paws and bulk of a bear and the shape of a man. He can use his inhuman physicality to fight, especially when he is in full bear form. With this, no normal person can physically overpower him and he is immune to their strength. Desperate, loyal and determined, he is known for his drive to "break the enemy into small pieces".
Like the rest of the team, he was given a special costume to increase his effectiveness and abilities. Part of this costume's equipment is a hand-held mini-gun and its battery pack, both of which are harnessed to his torso for battle, while he carries them both his back when fully transformed. Even while not transformed, he is shown to be strong enough to wield the large weapon and its power source.

Guardians Russian film informatics Part 4: Khan aka Windman

 
Khan is masterfully skilled with all kinds of blades, as well as with many kinds of martial arts. Along with other blades, he is primarily armed with twin, crescent like blades, each of which resemble a scimitar, scythe or sickle and can be joined at the hilts to form a double bladed weapon. His strong blades can slice through the metal of cars with enough force and without going blunt or being damaged. He is also physically augmented, possessing a degree of superhuman strength that allows him to smash through brick walls with a single punch and send men flying through the air with his attacks, as well as superhuman mobility that gives him acrobatic and gymnastic capabilities and the ability to effortlessly dodge and evade attacks, even gunfire at point blank range.

He also possesses inhuman speed, enough that he almost appears to teleport. Using his speed requires him first to focus hard, achieving a meditative state that causes his eyes to turn completely white and allowing him to perceive faster than any human can. While in this state, he sees everything as being in slow motion while he himself moves at normal speed, or somewhat faster. Whenever he moves in this state, a black gaseous trail appears behind him to outline his movements. His strength and speed allows him to generate enough force to slice a car and anyone in it in two with his blades. Like the rest of the team, he was given a special costume to increase his effectiveness and abilities.

Guardians Russian film informatics Part 3: Ler/Landman

Ler is the de facto leader of the group, a devout Catholic. He is armed with all forms of earth manipulation abilities, and is able to control stone and soil, collect dust from boulders, stop falling rocks, and move mountains. He can cause rocks of any size and amount to levitate and fly as if weightless, as well as orbit him. He can cause the ground to break apart under his enemies feet with great precision in what parts break and what shape the subsequent depression makes. This allows him to form instant craters, canyons, ravines, and sink holes to fight his opponents, though these formations are usually small in scale. Being able to cause quakes and tremors in the ground beneath his opponents, such as making the ground under them erupt and explode. He can summon rock onto his body, covering himself in rock to make an exoskeletal armor to physically enhance himself. Along with his abilities, he is armed with a small chain with a large rock cemented on its end, which he can use as a type of flail. Like the rest of the team, he was given a special costume to increase his effectiveness and abilities, as well as an extendable chain of rocks linked together by blue energy.

Guardians Russian film informatics Part 2: August Kuratov and his formation of the team

During the Cold War, a secret organization "Patriot" gathered a team of Soviet superheroes, altering and augmenting the DNA of many selected individuals throughout the former state's territory, in order to defend the homeland from supernatural threats. The team includes representatives of the different nationalities of the Soviet Union, while each one of them have long been hiding their true identity.
It was the brainchild of a certain scientist, whose success led to his rival Professor August Kuratov to attempt to escape and develop his own failed Module-1 project away from the Soviet authorities. When the military was summoned to arrest him, he bombed the Patriots' laboratory, but survived as he was covered with some chemicals. He builds a machine and augments it on himself to use his newfound powers to generate electricity and control machines, and creates an army of clones as his soldiers, to prove to the world that he is a genius.

August Kuratov owns a machine named "Modul-1" which allows him to control any technical equipment by generating electric-like energy. He decides to build his own army of clones in order to capture Moscow, in preparation to control the whole world. In addition, he is armed with a mechanized exoframe-like harness that enhances his physical abilities to the point where he could overpower Ler/Landman while the latter is using his rock exoskeleton. He later attempts to use the Ostankino Tower and the Federation Tower as a beacon to transmit his commands to an old Soviet satellite, and use it to control every other satellite orbiting the Earth and control all technology.

Guardians Russian film informatics Part 1: Introduction

Guardians (Russian: Защитники Zaschitniki) is a 2017 Russian superhero film[2] directed by Russian-Armenian director Sarik Andreasyan and starring Sebastien Sisak, Anton Pampushnyy, Sanzhar Madiyev, Alina Lanina, Valeriya Shkirando and Stanislav Shirin.
The film tells about a team of Soviet superheroes created during the Cold War. The team includes representatives of the different nationalities of the USSR. Each of the protagonists' superpowers reflect the strengths and traditions of the people of the USSR.


Cast
Sebastien Sisak as Ler aka Landman
Sanzhar Madiyev as Khan aka Windman
Anton Pampushnyy as Ursus aka Wildman
Alina Lanin as Xenia aka Waterwoman
Valeriya Shkirando as Major Elena Larina
Vyacheslav Razbegaev as Major-General Nikolai Dolgov
Stanislav Shirin as August Kuratov

Logan film informatics Part 2: Wolverine

Wolverine (born James "Jimmy" Howlett, simply referred to as Logan) was a mutant born with retractable bone claws, enhanced physical parameters, and a powerful healing factor. Living for nearly two centuries, Logan's life had been filled with blood, hatred, war, suffering, and betrayal. By the year 2029, Logan was dealing with his age and ailment. He is one of Charles Xavier's caregivers, alongside Caliban. Due to the adamantium poisoning him from within, Logan's healing factor had gradually weakened, causing his body to get more ravaged and less resilient, with a kind of tattooing of past battles, lacerations that remain of previous conflicts.

POWERS

Regenerative Healing Factor - Logan's primary mutant power is an accelerated healing process, typically referred to as his mutant healing factor, that regenerates damaged or destroyed tissues of his body far beyond the capabilities of an ordinary human. In addition to accelerated healing of physical traumas, Wolverine's healing factor makes him extraordinarily resistant to diseases, drugs, and toxins. His healing factor also dramatically affects his aging process, allowing him to live far beyond the normal lifespan of a human. Despite being born in the late 19th century, he has the appearance, conditioning, health, and vitality of a man in his physical prime. While seemingly ageless, it is unknown exactly how greatly his healing factor extends his life expectancy.
Although his body heals, the healing factor does not suppress the pain he endures while injured. Wolverine also admits to feeling phantom pains for weeks or months after healing from his injuries. His healing abilities is also known to provide increased recovery from psychological trauma by suppressing memories in which he experiences profound distress.


Enhanced Agility - Wolverine has remarkable equilibrium and coordination, greater than any human athlete. He capable of scaling vertical surfaces with remarkable efficiency. He is maneuverable and graceful, able to pursue and outrun a target in various types of terrains. His skills allow him to fluidly dodge and attack from different directions without losing balance. He shown noticeable acrobatics, lunging from trees to attack his target.

Enhanced Speed - Wolverine is able to run over 60 mph and move with reflexes unobtainable by normal human beings.

Enhanced Strength - With his body naturally evolved and conditioned to the peak of human physical potential and continually adjusting to various forms of damage, Wolverine is able to lift over 2 tons of weight. After his skeleton was laced with adamantium, he can still effortlessly carry himself. He can overpower full grown humans with his ease, able to hurl them with a single hand. His strength also extends to his legs, as he is able to jump several feet into the air.

Superhuman Senses - Wolverine's senses are heightened to levels similar to various animals. He can see with perfect clarity at greater distances than an ordinary human, even in near-total darkness. His hearing is enhanced in a similar manner, allowing him to both hear sounds ordinary humans cannot and also hear to greater distances. Wolverine is able to use his sense of smell to track targets by scent, even if the scent has been eroded somewhat over time by natural factors. This sense also gives him the advantage to identify shape-shifting mutants despite other forms they may take.


Retractable Claws - Wolverine possesses a pair of three, 12-inch retractable claws in each forearm. While they were originally made of dense bone like the rest of his skeletal structure, able to tear through most matter unharmed, they were surgically bonded with a near-indestructible metal called adamantium, which also caused a noticeable side-effect of reshaping his rough claws into sleek blades. These metal claws allow him to cut through virtually any substance with little resistance. Wolverine's ability to slice completely through a substance depends upon both the amount of force he can exert and the thickness of the substance. His claws can also be used to block attacks or projectiles, as well as dig into surfaces allowing Wolverine to climb structures.[126] The adamantium also adds weight to his blows, increasing the effectiveness of his offensive capabilities. His adamantium skeleton makes him highly susceptible to magnetic-based attacks.


Adamantium Skeleteon - Wolverine's entire skeleton, including his claws, has been molecularly infused with adamantium. Due to their coating, his claws can cut almost any known solid material, including most metals, wood, and some varieties of stone.

ABILITIES
Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant - Due to his advanced age and countless battles in both various wars and cage fights, Wolverine is well-versed in various forms of hand-to-hand combat. Wolverine was able to compete against Lady Deathstrike, Deadpool, and Mystique, who are some of the best fighters on the planet. While mostly using savage slashes with his claws in combat, he is shown to be very precise and methodical, quickly adjusting his tactics to better suit the situation and type of opponent.

Skilled Leader - Despite being more of a solo man, when the situation requires it, Logan is a capable leader. He led the X-Men into victory at the battle of Alcatraz, and his leadership ability was instrumental in the mission to stop Trask from building his Sentinels.

Stealth Expert - Wolverine was able to sneak around at the Xavier institute with multiple "mercenaries" armed with night vision goggles and guns, being shot only once. Furthermore, he was able to sneak around Magneto's base camp, and whilst being attacked by several mutants, he still didn't alert the full force of the Brotherhood of Mutants and was able to slip among them after defeating the small group of mutants. In addition, he snick into Three Mile Island's facility without being noticed in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Weapons Proficiency - Wolverine is proficient in handling any melee weapon or firearm, due to his war experiences.

Weaknesses

Adamantium - Wolverine's adamantium claws cannot penetrate or destroy other adamantium weapons unless they are somehow super-heated, to which a said weapon could potentially kill Wolverine as The Silver Samurai's energized blades proved able to easily destroy Wolverine's metal claws. Also, adamantium stuck inside one's body has poisonous properties. While the adamantium within his system was originally nullified by his healing factor, by 2029, Logan's healing became too weak to counter the adamantium. With the poison beginning to taking effect, the symptoms included chronic pain and regular coughing.

Drained Healing Factor - Wolverine's healing powers themselves are not self-restoring. If one can extract any of it, as Ichirō Yashida did, the powers will be permanently impaired. While still able to heal the same, his aging process was restarted. He still ages much slower than normal humans, but has begun to show signs of it by 2023, developing some grey hairs and minor wrinkles. Also, his healing powers are gradually weakening, taking hours if not days to recover, enabling him to potentially bleed out, and can leave scarring. His eyesight has also diminished, requiring reading glasses.

Decapitation - If Wolverine's head were to be decapitated, he wouldn't be able to regenerate/heal himself and would thus die. However, with the indestructible adamantium bonded to his skeletal structure, this task becomes far more difficult, with the super-heated adamantium blades being the only known weapons to be capable of doing it.

Drowning - It has been suggested that Wolverine can be killed by drowning. He has stated that he is not particularly fond of being in water, due partially to the additional weight of his adamantium laced skeleton, and that he can die if held under water long enough with his healing factor only prolonging the agony.


Magnetism - due to the adamantium in his skeleton, Wolverine is vulnerable to being subdued or manipulated by enemies who possess magnetic powers.


Mental Impairment - Although Wolverine can regenerate his physical brain and thereby avoid any brain damage, his memories are still vulnerable to being damaged, as seen when Colonel Stryker shot him in the head, to which his regenerated brain tissue could not retain his memories. Over time, however, the damage done to Wolverine's memory has gradually restored itself.

Logan film informatics Part 1: Synopsis

Logan (previously referred to as Wolverine 3) is the third and final Wolverine film. The film was negotiated by Twentieth-Century Fox for James Mangold to return to direct a sequel to The Wolverine with Hugh Jackman to reprise his role as Wolverine, since the aforementioned film was critically and financially successful. The movie is also to be Jackman's last portrayal of Wolverine as well as Patrick Stewart's last portrayal of Professor X. It was released on March 3 2017, in standard and IMAX formats. It received praise from critics and fans, with some calling it the best film in the X-Men series, and has grossed $305 million worldwide against its $97 million budget as of March 7, 2017..

In 2029, the Mutant population has shrunk significantly and the X-Men have disbanded. No new mutants have been born in over twenty years, and as their numbers dwindled, Professor X's dreams of a new stage in evolution slowly died.

A weary Logan has surrendered himself to alcoholism, now earns a living as a limo-driving chauffeur in a town on the Mexican border, and is hustling for medication that he takes out south to a remote, makeshift home and hideout, he shares with Caliban, nursemaid to the ailing and infirm, old Professor X, whom he and Caliban take care of and keep hidden away. In addition, Logan's power to self-heal is dwindling; fading as he has aged, with his face and body being scarred from past injuries and battles.

One day, Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are ended when a female stranger asks him to drive a girl named Laura to the Canadian border. At first, Logan refuses, but the Professor reveals that he has been waiting a long time for her to appear. Laura possesses an extraordinary fighting prowess and is in many ways like Wolverine. She is pursued by dark forces and sinister figures working for a powerful corporation because her DNA contains the secret that connects her to Logan. A relentless pursuit begins, and a decrepit Wolverine is forced to ask himself if he can or even wants to put his remaining powers to good use, as he he is drawn back into action, despite his hopelessness.